In the late summer of 2001 Gyff, Auru and I believe Majias were kind of sick of Soldiers of Steel and felt they could run a guild better. They started discussing it and gathered up the 10 people needed to form a guild created it on September 8th, 2001. Most were friends who they had met in Befallen.

The name Celestial Navigators was a combination of several suggestions. There were several who mentioned a theme of sky and Celestial themes. Vanidor(me) mentioned The Navigators a group of high level guides in the Rolemaster RPG by ICE called Shadow World and several others mentioned travel themes. Gyff combined the ideas into Celestial Navigators and everyone agreed on that.

The guild leader was Gyff(later switched to Wist) a wood elf druid. Most of the other founders became an officer, starting our tradition of having a large number of officers in the guild. They were Auru (rogue), Azargatha (necro), Cuin (druid), Daniella (druid), Majias (rogue), Movlo (bard), Roddingham (paladin), and Vanidor (wizard).
Tooth (shadowknight) helped in the chat portion of the creation and was made an officer, Maeaelar(random person in East Commonlands) helped in the second part of the guild creation when you had to have 10 members in a zone. Goethe stayed a member I think.